Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[CraigW]

Sorry to resurrect this thread - but I need some help! So I've got this courtesy Golf and thought I'd try out the SD card bit to see if I can get the artwork appearing on the screen. So I created some folders on the card and then just dragged the songs from iTunes into these folders. They all play fine in the car, but no artwork. Now I think they are in mpa4 format (?) - so my question is how do I get the pictures to come up??

Any help, in basic plain English, would be most appreciated!! I've read through this thread but there's so much jargon I haven't got a scooby!

Thanks in advance!

Hi Mark,

I downloaded a music converter application which was free. I then dragged my iTunes songs over to the converter to automayically change them to mp3 format. I then had to find pictures of the album covers on google and copy and paste them into the converter (there was a box for each song on the converter for album artwork). This worked fine but it was time consuming and there must have been a quicker way

Thanks Crag, I might try that. I tried doing what the link to the YouTube video about the A1 artwork - and it didn't work! Why these things just don't work straight away I don't know but at least I have a project to keep me busy until my car turns up 

No probs Mark. For some reason I couldn't get the album artwork to copy accross from iTunes so had to scroll through images on the Internet. It definitely keeps you occupied whilst waiting 

[matchboy]

Thanks Craig, that works a treat! Will certainly keep me busy as its quick for songs off the same album but will take an age for individual tunes - oh well, better it works than not! Interestingly though, I tried a song direct from iTunes (m4a) and the same somg converted to mp3 and the m4a one displayed the artwork - so no need to convert?!?? Bizarre!!

[matchboy]

Ok, thanks to Craig and you other helpful chaps I've figured out this sd malarkey, for iTunes users. Basically you need to get the artwork from amazon and save the pic. Then copy the jpeg from where youve saved it, go to iTunes, right click on the song(s) and select 'get info,' then paste the jpeg into the box for artwork.

Once done (very time consuming) just drag the songs onto the sd card.

Best bit is: no need to convert to mp3 - I've tested it and works a treat! Looks very 

Thanks chaps!

[CraigW]

Ok, thanks to Craig and you other helpful chaps I've figured out this sd malarkey, for iTunes users. Basically you need to get the artwork from amazon and save the pic. Then copy the jpeg from where youve saved it, go to iTunes, right click on the song(s) and select 'get info,' then paste the jpeg into the box for artwork.

Once done (very time consuming) just drag the songs onto the sd card.

Best bit is: no need to convert to mp3x - I've tested it and works a treat! Looks very 

Thanks chaps!

Excellent Mark! Glad you got it to work. It will provide you with hours of entertainment to help pass the time

[matchboy]

Yep, and even though its time consuming its all about the end game so it's worth it!!

[monkeyhanger]

I cannot for the life of me find my recently received Sandisk Ultra 32Gb card. I opened up the pack and then put it somewhere safe. 

[Bill_the_Bear]

I cannot for the life of me find my recently received Sandisk Ultra 32Gb card. I opened up the pack and then put it somewhere safe. 

sh!t.  I'm always putting things somewhere "safe" only to forget where.  Usually I then have to turn the house upside down to find the thing I've lost thereby losing everything else in the process.

[matchboy]

I cannot for the life of me find my recently received Sandisk Ultra 32Gb card. I opened up the pack and then put it somewhere safe. 

  I had this exact same problem earlier! The wife had "tidied up" 

[monkeyhanger]

I cannot for the life of me find my recently received Sandisk Ultra 32Gb card. I opened up the pack and then put it somewhere safe. 

  I had this exact same problem earlier! The wife had "tidied up" 

I'll order a new one and then find it.

[monkeyhanger]

New one ordered, I will find the other one tonight no doubt.
 
Gizmo Heaven: 32Gb, Class 10 SDHC Sandisk Ultra. £15.15 with the discount code “G5” which is supposed to only work with Kingston products, but seems to work with everything (all brands of SD cards at least).